2023 Results & Winner of the Cup


World Photographic Cup Winners 2023 Announcement and 10th Anniversary
The results of the 2023 Edition of the World Photographic Cup (WPC) have just been announced and team Mexico – lead by Team Captain Marian Bliss Blake have taken out the coveted Cup for the second year in a row.
The results of the 2023 competition were very close. Only three points separated the podium finishing teams. After Mexico in first place, Team Australia took out the second place crystal trophy followed by Team United States in third place. Also in the Top10 teams rank: Malaysia, 4th place, Portugal, 5th place, Brazil, 6th place, UK, 7th place, Austria, 8th place, Costa Rica, 9th place and New Zealand, 10th place.
The 2023 Gold Medals went to Eduardo Gómez, Team Mexico, for the Commercial category; Ben Shirk, USA, in the Illustration/Digital Art category; Laura Bennet, also from USA, for the Nature-Landscape category; David Keep, Team UK, in Nature Wildlife; Forough Yavari, from Australia, in the Illustrative Portrait and Robert Coppa, also from Australia, in the Natural Portrait category; Luís Bento, Team Portugal got the Gold medal in the Reportage category and Roger Tan, from Malaysia, in the Wedding category. With Austria, France, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Norway and Slovakia also joining the individual medal circle.
The quality of images entered from teams around the world gets stronger every year. The WPC is the only Olympics style event in the world for Photography. WPC Chief Executive Officer Giuseppe Scozzi, who led the ceremony, said “Over the past ten years the competition has grown and with it the standard of entries. WPC truly showcases the best in photography from across the world. Those who do succeed can truly claim to have created the best photography in the world and WPC is the vehicle for showcasing this work.”
The winning images of this edition can be seen here below:
Commercial
Eduardo Gómez, Team Mexico | Gold Medal
Kazutoshi Kawakami, Team Japan | Silver Medal
Peter Lippmann, Team France | Bronze Medal
John Hartman, Team United States | 4th Place
Sebastián Alba Vives, Team Costa Rica | 5th Place
Amber Griffin, Team New Zealand | 6th Place
Onni Wiljami Kinnunen, Team Finland | 7th Place
Klaudia Ratzinger, Team Austria | 8th Place
Niklas Englund, Team Sweden | 9th Place
Holly-Lynn Latimour, Team Canada | 10th Place
Illustration / Digital Art
Ben Shirk, Team United States | Gold Medal
Luciano Honorato, Team Brazil | Silver Medal
Diamantino Jesus, Team Portugal | Bronze Medal
Sebastián Alba Vives, Team Costa Rica | 4th Place
Forough Yavari, Team Australia | 5th Place
José Freitas, Team Portugal | 6th Place
Flavio Albino, Team Brazil | 7th Place
Richard Wood, Team New Zealand | 8th Place
Hanna Neret, Team Sweden | 9th Place
Javier Alejandro Solis, Team Panama | 10th Place
Illustrative Portrait
Forough Yavari, Team Australia | Gold Medal
Esteban Ruíz, Team Mexico | Silver Medal
Richard Wood, Team New Zealand | Bronze Medal
Alysson Oliveira, Team Brazil | 4th Place
Nancy Flammea, Team Australia | 5th Place
OOI CHAI PORE, Team Malaysia | 6th Place
Maria Fleischmann, Team Guatemala | 7th Place
Sonja Hietala, Team Finland | 8th Place
Ambika Agrawal, Team India | 9th Place
Amber Griffin, Team New Zealand | 10th Place
Natural Portrait
Robert Coppa, Team Australia | Gold Medal
Ana María Iglesias, Team Mexico | Silver Medal
Sandra Ventura, Team Portugal | Bronze Medal
VALERIA CASSINA, Team Spain | 4th Place
AKIS DOUZLATZIS, Team Greece | 5th Place
Ron Gesser, Team Canada | 6th Place
Therese Asplund, Team Sweden | 7th Place
Megan Drane, Team United States | 8th Place
周 安康 Ankang Zhou, Team China | 8th Place
JULIAN OCHOA MARTÍNEZ, Team Spain | 10th Place
Nature / Landscape
Laura Bennett, Team United States | Gold Medal
Torleif Lie, Team Norway | Silver Medal
Marián Kuric, Team Slovakia | Bronze Medal
Sebastián Rodríguez, Team Ecuador | 4th Place
Jassi Oberai, Team India | 5th Place
Tony Moore, Team United Kingdom | 6th Place
JOSÉ PESQUERO GÓMEZ, Team Spain | 7th Place
John Grusd, Team United States | 8th Place
Christopher Magsino, Team Philippines | 9th Place
Mieke Boynton, Team Australia | 10th Place
Nature / Wildlife
David Keep, Team United Kingdom | Gold Medal
KHAICHUIN SIM, Team Malaysia | Silver Medal
Andrew Glogower, Team United States | Bronze Medal
Luis Padilla, Team Mexico | 4th Place
Mario Wong, Team Costa Rica | 5th Place
Kenneth Bovat, Team United States | 6th Place
Marcel Egger, Team Austria | 7th Place
Risto Raunio, Team Finland | 8th Place
Tone Balslev Haugerud, Team Norway | 9th Place
Ann Coppens, Team Belgium | 10th Place
Reportage / Photojournalism
Luís Bento, Team Portugal | Gold Medal
Lacey Barrett, Team Australia | Silver Medal
Klaudia Ratzinger, Team Austria | Bronze Medal
Matthew Palmer, Team Australia | 4th Place
Eliud Gil Samaniego, Team Mexico | 5th Place
Juan Silva Camezi, Team Mexico | 6th Place
Andre Magarao, Team Brazil | 7th Place
Robert Biesemans, Team Belgium | 8th Place
ENGKU HISHAM MOHAMAD, Team Malaysia | 9th Place
Risto Raunio, Team Finland | 10th Place
Víctor Medina, Team Mexico | 10th Place
Wedding
ROGER TAN, Team Malaysia | Gold Medal
OOI CHAI PORE, Team Malaysia | Silver Medal
JOHN MAKRIS, Team Greece | Bronze Medal
Zaki Charles, Team United Kingdom | 4th Place
Monika Kessler, Team Austria | 5th Place
Trude Brun Wilhelmsen, Team Norway | 6th Place
姚 加田 Jiatian Yao, Team China | 7th Place
Manolo Sierra, Team Mexico | 8th Place
Mario Munoz, Team United States | 9th Place
Paulo Pinto, Team Portugal | 10th Place